NPR is shrinking its newsroom through layoffs and buyouts and is reducing staff dedicated to covering both climate and science. "The climate desk no longer exists separately but has been folded into the National Desk," writes Neela Banerjee, who headed the climate desk but was just laid off.

Voting is a residency-based right for people. Letting property owners -- let alone LLCs -- vote in places where they do not reside violates the most basic principles of democracy let alone the state constitution's "free and equal" elections clause. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Absolute banger if you're into vexillology xkcd.com/3250/

BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”

A Google security engineer allegedly made over $1 million on a Polymarket trade about the most-searched person in 2025.

Anybody know Delaware salvage law? www.capegazette.com/article/sail...

Put up some kitchen grade pegboard in a bakery today. All dense plastic so not a material I’ve worked with before. Had to go into brick so used a hammer drill and some Tapcons. Kind of nuts how cheap Bauer is compared to DeWalt for some power tools. I think it’s time to switch my other stuff over.

Go full jugular all the time. Really glad to see some newer candidates get it.

Remarkable how many claims about media coverage and communication here are not at all substantiated by scholarship or even basic content analysis. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/c...

Good thing nobody covered Trump’s 2024 win as a mandate for dramatic policy change & a right-wing vision of America’s future — instead of, say, a close win driven mainly by the price of eggs and gas going up (then back down!) in 2022-23. That would have been irresponsible. Good thing nobody did that

Hilarious article because these guys don’t have actual products and the two other examples are, I kid you not, figuring out how to walk through a grocery store and sharing documents with contractors.

A job got rained out, so I finally fixed two pieces of staircase trim in my house that have been bothering me for a year+. Please clap.

See, the AI models know they’re guilty

Crashing the Free Press Excursion to Gettysburg to let them know that one of the sides is bad, actually

From the bottom of my heart: if you can't explain the ethics of a public policy decision to a smart middle schooler then it is not an ethical policy.

Happy anniversary to the GOAT baseball blooper

hooting when I see ads for this shit because amid all the broken promises and inability to even understand that they made or broke promises, they are gonna deliver one for the MMA podcast bros

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

This is what the moment requires of every national political leader. There are some things only you can do as a House member or a senator. But putting your body on the line in solidarity with your constituents is actually the baseline. That is what elected office is for.

Regime Security Forces Assault U.S. Opposition Leaders Outside Immigrant Prison www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

"...a crowd of 10,000 people...staged a parade around the racetrack. Three thousand Black schoolchildren carried bouquets of flowers and sang 'John Brown’s Body.' Members of the famed 54th Massachusetts and other Black Union regiments were in attendance and performed double-time marches."

Not everyone looks at something they don’t understand and sees a god. And just because you make a technology using a metaphor for a brain doesn’t make it a brain.

Sen. Kim is one of those class of 2018 members who, regardless of their ideological leanings, is deeply committed to public service and understands their office belongs to their constituents.

Again, straight from Delaney Hall in Newark NJ: ICE just tear gassed Senator Andy Kim.

:: Throwing a rock at a hornet’s nest :: Wow so all you do is sting huh

Anti-tourist “go home” bumper sticker paired with at least three stickers for local businesses that would not exist without tourism. Absolute swing voter mindset.

WHERE IS THE WIDOW’S BAY FANDOM? Let’s get together and talk about how they have made a show that is as funny as it is scary.

This was a very sweet film I finally had time to watch. Seeing Springsteen through a British son-of-an-immigrant perspective helped recast his music. Semi-autobiographical, too, and deals with the rise of anti-immigrant racism under Thatcher. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded...

sorry can you repeat that my chocobo homunculus was doing his mambo

Woof. ~$100M to repair the breakwater around one of our lighthouses vs. ~$5.5M to disassemble and move it elsewhere. www.capegazette.com/article/city...

A flash policy to address the pain at the pump would be point of sale rebates for e-bikes and rapid bike lane and infrastructure build out.

Adding to Tom Steyer discourse

Two encyclicals in one day!

Every time you suplex a doomer a climate scientist gets their wings

he also snuck a prompt injection in there that ensouls your chatbot if you ask it to give you a summary so watch out

I say this regularly and invariably some people lose their shit because they have trouble with reading. There won't be a shortage of people focused on electoralism over the next few years. So if that's not your ministry, you don't also have to focus there. There's much else to do. Do those things.

Post your Memorial Day bangers

The pope said computers are bullshit Ton

Yeah, this is the stuff.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Can't find it after a lot of searching including trying my best to be nice to LLMs. I think it involved a child looking at a Civil War memorial after visiting the Vietnam War memorial and asking "Where are all the names?" or "Where are the names?"

I’m at a con and a fan brought in my junior year yearbook

The tape measure in the toddler toolkit I picked up has metric and standard. Hell yeah.

Twin Peaks: The Return

Parents are often very bad at including childless people in their lives. (I am a parent don’t yell at me.)

This. Only the left would convince ourselves that we have to spend time online being abused by Nazis and this self-flagellation will somehow lead to Democrats winning elections.

Saw a kid whaling on a dead horseshoe crab with a plastic shovel and my blood really got going; his dad intervened but it took a minute and I shouted "Hey, is that a dead crab?" from like 15 feet away. This ain't Starship Troopers son!

Jobber is overkill for 99% of my jobs but it looks and feels so professional and getting clients to formally sign off on quotes protects everyone

DC people: 1) anybody worth ranking for mayor besides Janeese? 2) what's the story of "Democrats United to free DC" (besides trying to coopt @freedcproject.bsky.social's energy)?